Chicago: Another fine summer day in Daley's rose garden

[seamusTX]

Guns in the home are typically not a danger to residents when the household doesn't include convicted felons, as the decline in accidental shootings to the current historic lows during a time of historic highs in gun ownership attests.

This is an actual fact. Most of these "accidents" and criminal shootings involve gross negligence or malice, not the supposed "gun just going off."

In this case, the teenager who found the gun was committing a felony the second that he touched it.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

In the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago this morning (Saturday) a man was walking a snowblower down the street at about 1:40 a.m. when he was robbed of the snowblower and cash and then shot for good measure.

No suspects have been identified.

The victim is expected to recover after surgery.

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Chicago has been snowed under with the worst weather in 30 years, and this was the first shooting since Wednesday.

FYI, if I were somehow set down on foot in Englewood, I would break an Olympic record running out.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

Uh-oh. Back to business as usual.

In the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side at 1:52 a.m. a man was shot three times. He is in a hospital in stable condition.

A woman was fatally shot in the South Shore neighborhood around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning for no apparent reason. No suspect has been identified.

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In the 1400 block of north Halsted around 2:30 a.m. a man was shot in the leg. His condition is not reported. Probably he has one good leg left.

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All these neighborhoods are iffy. That area of north Halsted used to be downright terrifying, but it has been "gentrifying." I haven't been there in years.

- Jim